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The Clash "Wrong 'Em Boyo" = "Sloop John B"

― adgaehg, Thursday, 27 May 2004 02:26 (twenty years ago) link

The Faces' "Cindy Incidentally" sounds like Dylan's "I Don't Believe You"

― de, Thursday, 27 May 2004 02:36 (twenty years ago) link

Alphaville's "Forever Young" = Pachelbel's Canon

― lkjp, Thursday, 3 June 2004 12:11 (twenty years ago) link

Belle and Sebastian "We Rule the School" also = Pachebel's Canon
Also on a B&S theme, "Mary Jo" = "A Winter's Tale" by David Essex.

― ailsa (ailsa), Thursday, 3 June 2004 13:02 (twenty years ago) link

Marshall Tucker Band "Can't You See" = Velvet Underground "Sweet Nuthin'"

― autovac (autovac), Thursday, 3 June 2004 18:27 (twenty years ago) link

The guitar on the Fall's "Rolling Dany" is the same riff as "Smokin' in the Boys Room"

Also, keeping with This Nation's Saving Grace, Magnetic Fields took the riff from "Paint Work" for "A Chicken With Its Head Cut Off"

― Mike Ouderkirk (Mike Ouderkirk), Friday, 4 June 2004 06:28 (twenty years ago) link

three months pass...

Kasabian 'LSF' and the theme music to Mopatop's Shop

― peter dee (peter dee), Thursday, 9 September 2004 19:44 (twenty years ago) link

four months pass...

I can't keep straight all the threads that are like this (shouldn't there be a tracklink uptop to the recent one?) so if this has been mentioned before forgive me

You Belong to Me sounds like 19th Nervous Breakdown
Tokyo Storm Warning really sounds like 19th Nervous Breakdown

― Ken L (Ken L), Friday, 21 January 2005 04:25 (nineteen years ago) link

the main riffs in "Da Funk" by Daft Punk and "Never Let Me Down Again" by Depeche Mode are fairly similar (that descending thing they both do). Sometimes I'll whistle one then switch to the other.

― Brandon Mitchell (A.H.), Friday, 21 January 2005 05:10 (nineteen years ago) link

and both songs are the same tempo, with the riffs separated by like a 5th or something between them.

― Brandon Mitchell (A.H.), Friday, 21 January 2005 05:12 (nineteen years ago) link

Razorlight's "Golden Touch" = The Cure "10:15 Saturday Night".

― Si Carter (Si Carter), Friday, 21 January 2005 08:38 (nineteen years ago) link

Futurama Theme = Smells Like Teen Spirit - Nirvana

― Jarlr'mai (jarlrmai), Friday, 21 January 2005 10:10 (nineteen years ago) link

Franz Ferdinand, Take Me Out = Led Zeppelin, Trampled Underfoot

― Dadaismus (Dada), Friday, 21 January 2005 10:14 (nineteen years ago) link

Some song by Athlete that i forget the name of sounds just like some song by Avril Lavigne that i forget the name of. And i forgot what they both sound like.

A little help here?

― dmun, Friday, 21 January 2005 11:37 (nineteen years ago) link

Love and Rockets - "Mirror People"

starts off in perfect Jesus and Mary Chain style circa Automatic, complete with lyrics:

"I'm so happy with my feet on the ground
So happy my head spins around" and so on, could be about half the songs on that album

At about the 1:25 mark the guitars start to sound just like the the Raveonettes' much later freakout in "Attack of the Ghost Riders"

― Slim Pickens (Slim Pickens), Friday, 21 January 2005 11:46 (nineteen years ago) link

Is the similarity between the basslines of Queen's "Another Bites the Dust" and Chic's "Good Times" too obvious mention? Anyway, that connection was made explicit on Grandmaster Flash's "Adventures on the Wheels of Steel", where Flash mixes both of them.

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Friday, 21 January 2005 11:53 (nineteen years ago) link

"I'm Like A Bird" by Nelly Retardo vs "I'm In the Mood for Dancing" by I dunno who.

― dog latin (dog latin), Friday, 21 January 2005 12:29 (nineteen years ago) link

Not sure which came first, but the Clash's "Manicifent Seven" and Man Parrish's "Hip Hop Be Bop" are almost identical.

And they mix really well together too.

― dog latin (dog latin), Friday, 21 January 2005 12:30 (nineteen years ago) link

Futurama theme - "Young Livers" by Rocket From The Crypt

― MTA?, Friday, 21 January 2005 13:02 (nineteen years ago) link

Here's one :

Oasis - 'Cast No Shadow' is a complete rip-off of Moby Grape's 'He'. Just listen to the melody in the verse.

― Dr. C (Dr. C), Friday, 21 January 2005 13:05 (nineteen years ago) link

I love that song "He". Kind of a rip off of Buffalo Springfield dontch think?

― Dadaismus (Dada), Friday, 21 January 2005 13:09 (nineteen years ago) link

roxus intro riff - "stand back" / van halen "jump"

That one White Stripes song has the same "oh-oh-oh-oh" vocal line as "Middle of the Road" by the Pretenders. That band Gaunt had a song which took a similar vocal line from a Naked Raygun song. Melissa Etheridge's voice sounds like Steve Perry's to me. And the list goes on and on.
-- hstencil (hstenci...), September 9th, 2002.

ha! melissa should sing " oh sherrie" she can sing about loving a girl without changing the lyrics
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"Do Ya" = "Fox on the Run."
-- Jody Beth Rosen (edito...), September 9th, 2002.
do you mean sam fox"do tya wanna please me" ? which part ? bridge?

― uidge mre, Friday, 21 January 2005 13:52 (nineteen years ago) link

icehouse "love in motion"/david essex "rock on"
mel and kim "showing out)get fresh at the weekend/ chic "le freak"
elton john "sorry seems to be the hardest word"/billy joel"honesty"

― uidge mre, Friday, 21 January 2005 13:56 (nineteen years ago) link

icehouse "love in motion"/david essex "rock on"
mel and kim "showing out)get fresh at the weekend/ chic "le freak"
elton john "sorry seems to be the hardest word"/billy joel"honesty"

― uidge mre, Friday, 21 January 2005 13:58 (nineteen years ago) link

the middle 8 of happy mondays "wrote for luck / beatles "ticket ride"
the happy mondays"i had to crucify some brother today" sounds like
the beatles i think i'm going away i think it's todaaaaaay yeah"

― uidge mre, Friday, 21 January 2005 14:00 (nineteen years ago) link

Howling Wolf, Spoonful / Captain Beefheart, Gimme Dat Harp Boy
Howling Wolf, Smokestack Lightning / Pentangle, Way Behind the Sun / Kaleidoscope, Beacon From Mars / thousands of others

― Dadaismus (Dada), Friday, 21 January 2005 14:01 (nineteen years ago) link

Led Zeppelin, Whole Lotta Love / song on the first Small Faces album that I can't remember

You could do a whole thread on songs Lep Zep ripped off

― Dadaismus (Dada), Friday, 21 January 2005 14:02 (nineteen years ago) link

And hey, did anyone notice the resemblances between "Ice Ice Baby" and "Under Pressure"?

-- My name is Kenny (khemunso...), September 9th, 2002.
queen/bowie did but vanilla didn't

― manhattan man, Friday, 21 January 2005 14:02 (nineteen years ago) link

foo fighters "monkey wrench"(one in ten) / elton jon "whipping boy"

― manhattan man, Friday, 21 January 2005 14:06 (nineteen years ago) link

foo fighters "monkey wrench"(one in ten) / elton jon "whipping boy"

― manhattan man, Friday, 21 January 2005 14:06 (nineteen years ago) link

Love, Signed DC / Moody Blues, Nights in White Satin
The Beatles, Eleanor Rigby / Love, Robert Montgomery
Tom Jones, It's Not Unusual / Love, Nice to Be
Bob Dylan, Times They Are a-Changin' / Love, Gather Round

The first Love albums full of songs that sound like other songs

The Seeds / The Seeds

All The Seeds's songs sound like all the other Seeds's songs - if that makes any sense.

― Dadaismus (Dada), Friday, 21 January 2005 14:11 (nineteen years ago) link

one month passes...

"Waiting" by Deana Carter feat. Dwight Yoakam sounds like it got its melody "A Space Oddity."

"Holy Water" by Big and Rich reminds me of Babybird's "You're Gorgeous."

― Ken L (Ken L), Sunday, 20 March 2005 07:25 (nineteen years ago) link

one year passes...

Nancy Sinatra has a song called "How Does That Grab Ya, Darlin'" that sounds exactly like "These Boots Were made For Walkin'". Same intro and backing drum beat, same musical structure, and the song is written as Nancy talking to some guy.

― musically (musically), Saturday, 25 March 2006 01:57 (eighteen years ago) link

The White Stripes "Denial Twist" sounds a lot like Barbra Streisand's "Queen Bee" from the A Star Is Born soundtrack.

Sugababes "Push the Button" has the same melody as "Something Stupid" by Frank and Nancy Sinatra.

― They Call the Wind Howchamagowcha (Arthur), Saturday, 25 March 2006 04:46 (eighteen years ago) link

nick lowe - sound of breaking glass
david bowie - sound + vision

― timmy tannin (pompous), Saturday, 25 March 2006 05:47 (eighteen years ago) link

jayhawks - stick in the mud
richard & linda thompson - calvary cross

― timmy tannin (pompous), Saturday, 25 March 2006 05:53 (eighteen years ago) link

Iron Butterfly: In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida
Sonic Youth: 100% (it even has a drum solo!)

― Douglas (Douglas), Saturday, 25 March 2006 16:55 (eighteen years ago) link

Always thought the guitar in Donovan's "Jersey Thursday" and Nick Drake's "Things Behind The Sun" were very similar.

― tenbuck, Saturday, 25 March 2006 17:38 (eighteen years ago) link

Sheryl Crow: "All I Wanna Do" = Stealers Wheel "Stuck In The Middle With You"

― Vg (1411), Saturday, 25 March 2006 19:17 (eighteen years ago) link

T-Rex "Hot Love" = Norman Greenbaum "Spirit in the Sky"

― JTS (JTS), Sunday, 26 March 2006 17:57 (eighteen years ago) link

Phats N Small "Turn Around" = Stardust "Music Sounds Better With You"

― JTS (JTS), Sunday, 26 March 2006 17:58 (eighteen years ago) link

The first first few lines of Toploader's "Breathe" is identical to Julian Lennon's "Saltwater"

And then the rest of "Breathe" sounds like "Labour of Love" by Hue and Cry.

― JTS (JTS), Sunday, 26 March 2006 18:08 (eighteen years ago) link

The oi oi oi bit in buffalo soldier = theme tune from banana splits.
goodnight by the beatles = edelweiss
recent-ish coldplay single = cinnamon girl

― dr lulu (dr lulu), Sunday, 26 March 2006 18:40 (eighteen years ago) link

the walkmen "new years eve" quite similar to the beach boys "hang on to your ego/I know there's an answer"

― nicholas jones, Monday, 3 April 2006 10:24 (eighteen years ago) link

I always found it kind of suspicious that Bruce Foxton managed to write Smithers Jones having never before been acquainted with a melody. Having heard 'I Can't Reach You' from the Who Sell Out, I know why!

― dr x o'skeleton, Monday, 3 April 2006 11:38 (eighteen years ago) link

"You and Your Sister" by Chris Bell sounds a bit like "More Thank Words"

― Chuck_Tatum (Chuck_Tatum), Monday, 3 April 2006 12:13 (eighteen years ago) link

opening drums to johnny boy's "you are the generation that bought more shoes and you get what you deserve" is jesus and mary chains "just like honey," then the vocal line from said song is appropriated for johnny boy's "all exits final"

― TAO (daggerlee), Monday, 3 April 2006 12:24 (eighteen years ago) link

Help me out... theres a foo fighters track where the drum & guitar during the verse are a direct lift of the Police's "Synchronicity II"... whats the name of that track??

― Vernon Honeycombe, Wednesday, 12 April 2006 04:40 (eighteen years ago) link

four weeks pass...

Franz Ferdinand, Take Me Out = Led Zeppelin, Trampled Underfoot

-- Dadaismus (dadaismu...), January 21st, 2005.

I heard Stevie Wonder's Superstition the other day and thought "Gee, that obviously inspired Trampled Under Foot, but when I tried going throug the Led Zeppelin song in my head I came up with Take Me Out.

So then, Superstition begat Trampled Under Foot which begat Take Me Out. Are there any songs that inspired Stevie Wonder? Any that are direct offspring of Franz Ferdinand? Are there any other three songs that follow a sort of evolutionary flow (this would exclude the countless Sister Ray clones as they are all aping VU and not building off each other).

― O-Keigh (O-Keigh), Thursday, 11 May 2006 19:40 (eighteen years ago) link

"In the Aeroplane Over the Sea" (1997) = the Carousel's "My Boy And His Motorbike" (1994).

Surely coincidental, though?

― Pessimist (Pessimist), Thursday, 11 May 2006 19:59 (eighteen years ago) link

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